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Bonnie Crombie Reveals Plan to Fix Education and Do More for You

Ontario Liberal Party | Feb 21, 2025
Ontario Liberal Leader, Bonnie Crombie, released her election platform, Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to do More for You. The plan outlines bold steps to improve Ontario’s education system by investing in students, supporting educators, and preparing kids for the future. Crombie released her costed platform today, including real solutions to Doug Ford’s chronic underfunding of our education system. The platform includes no tax increases and no new taxes, and it costs far less than Doug Ford’s fantasy tunnel project.
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Ontario’s Liberals’ plan to End Hallway Healthcare

Ontario Liberal Party | Feb 12, 2025
Bonnie Crombie outlined her plan to end hallway healthcare in Ontario and commits to ending the deadly crisis in hospitals and emergency rooms by investing in healthcare workers and the infrastructure we need. Hospitals in Ontario are so overcrowded that patients are being treated on floors, in chairs, in hallways, in break rooms and in supply closets. "Seven years ago, Doug Ford promised to end hallway healthcare, and he didn’t get it done,” Crombie said. “I will. What I am hearing from people all across Ontario is heartbreaking. It’s not acceptable. And we can and must do better.”
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Cambridge Liberal candidate Rob Deutschmann doesn't buy Ford's reasons for election

Cambridge Today | Feb 11, 2025
Winter hasn't stopped Rob Deutschmann and his team from knocking on doors in the run up to this month's snap, provincial election and that effort is beginning to show. The Cambridge Liberal candidate's familiar red signs are cropping up in front of homes across the city despite the mountains of snow and bitterly cold weather. The former regional councillor says Doug Ford's decision to call an election at a time when the provincial economy is under threat isn't true leadership. 'We've had the common sense revolution, it's almost like the nonsense evolution,' Deutschmann says of decision to call a snap election.
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Ontario's Liberals Fix Ford's Health Care and Transit Failures in Kitchener

Ontario Liberal Party | Feb 06, 2025
Bonnie Crombie, Leader of Ontario’s Liberals, announced a comprehensive plan to address Kitchener-Waterloo’s urgent health care and transit needs during an address to the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber of Commerce. “Doug Ford doesn’t want to talk about health care because he can’t defend his deadly record of neglect,” said Bonnie Crombie. “Here in Kitchener-Waterloo, 123,879 people don’t have a family doctor. That’s unacceptable. While Ford is busy making his rich friends richer, we will invest in real solutions that make your lives easier.”
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Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie Promises to Double ODSP

Ontario Liberal Party | Feb 05, 2025
Bonnie Crombie, Leader of Ontario’s Liberals, announced her plan to make life more affordable for people with disabilities, by permanently doubling the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) benefits. “People with disabilities are dying in this province because Doug Ford has neglected to provide the basics,” said Bonnie Crombie. “ODSP rates are so low that people are forced to live in poverty, and rely on food banks just to get by. It’s unacceptable.”
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Bonnie Crombie Unveils Tariff Relief Plan to Fight for You and Your Paycheque

Ontario Liberal Party | Feb 03, 2025
Bonnie Crombie, Leader of Ontario’s Liberals, reiterated her commitment today to stand with Team Canada in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs. “I am fully behind a coordinated response by the provinces and federal government to fight back against Trump,” Crombie told the Greater Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber of Commerce. “We are united, 100 per cent, with every bit of true patriot love in our bodies, behind Team Canada.”
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Election ballots take shape as Waterloo Region politicians hit campaign trail

CityNews Kitchener | Jan 30, 2025
With less than a month until the provincial election, local politicians vying for a seat at the table are gearing up for a whirlwind campaign. Another political announcement made at the Region of Waterloo on Wednesday has emptied a seat around the horseshoe. Councillor Colleen James has decided to take a 29-day leave of absence from her regional council role to focus on her campaign to be elected MPP for the Kitchener Centre riding. Her announcement follows a similar decision from now-former regional councillor Rob Deutschmann who is also a Liberal candidate in the upcoming provincial election, vying for the MPP seat in Cambridge.
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The race is on: Local ridings to watch in this Ontario election

CBC Kitchener-Waterloo | Jan 29, 2025
As an Ontario election gets underway Wednesday, there are still some candidate openings in local ridings. So far, only one riding has four candidates from the major parties currently represented at Queen's Park announced — that's Cambridge. Cambridge has four candidates already named and all of them have experience, including Liberal candidate Rob Deutschmann who was — until last week — a regional councillor. He's also the former mayor of North Dumfries.
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Doug Ford Spends $1.9 Billion on His Rich Buddies Instead of Getting You a Family Doctor

Ontario Liberal Party | Jan 27, 2025
Ontario’s Financial Accountability Officer revealed the true cost of Doug Ford’s Boozedoggle will top $1.9 billion, exposing the sky high price Ontario taxpayers will pay for his wrong priorities. The taxpayer dollars spent just to get booze in big box stores a year earlier than planned, would have allowed Ontario to hire 1,400 family doctors to provide care to 2 million people. There are currently at least 2.5 million people in Ontario on the waiting list for a family doctor. “What a disastrous waste of money. Once again, Doug Ford has been caught red handed,” said Bonnie Crombie, Leader of Ontario’s Liberals. “He gave $1.9 billion of your hard earned money to big beer companies and his American billionaire buddies who own 7-11 and Costco, instead of getting people a family doctor.”
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Robert Deutschmann named as Ontario Liberal candidate, resigns from regional council

CTV News | Jan 22 (updated Jan 23), 2025
A member of Region of Waterloo council is leaving his seat for a shot at a provincial political job. Rob Deutschmann has been named the Liberal candidate for Cambridge, according to a news release from the Cambridge Provincial Liberal Association. “I am honoured to have the opportunity to represent the Cambridge community as the Liberal candidate,” Deutschmann said in the release.
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Rob Deutschmann quits regional council to run as Ontario Liberal candidate in Cambridge

Waterloo Region Record | Jan 22, 2025
Rob Deutschmann has resigned from Region of Waterloo council to become the Liberal candidate for Cambridge in the next Ontario election. The Cambridge Provincial Liberal Association announced Deutschmann as its candidate on Wednesday. Deutschmann, a personal injury attorney, is a lifelong resident of Waterloo Region who has been on regional council for six years following a four-year stint as mayor of North Dumfries.
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Regional councillor Rob Deutschmann will seek council's support for a resolution demanding the province withdraw Bill 212

Cambridge Today | Nov 20, 2024
Regional councillor Rob Deutschmann will ask fellow councillors to support a motion asking the province to stay in its lane when it comes to bike lanes. A notice of motion on tonight's meeting agenda seeks support to oppose the province's plan to require provincial approval for all new cycling lanes that remove vehicle traffic lanes.
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Regional councillors among dozens opposed to use of notwithstanding clause to clear encampments

CityNews Kitchener | Nov 18, 2024
Opposition to a letter from some Ontario mayors, calling for the province to allow municipalities to request the use of the Notwithstanding Clause to clear homeless encampments, is growing. A group of town, city, regional and municipal councillors, including Rob Deutschmann, have penned a letter to the premier, calling for the clause to be removed as an option. Deutschmann said recent comments from Premier Doug Ford regarding the use of the notwithstanding clause was “appalling”.
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Police need to 'provide timely, relevant data to support budget requests,' regional councillor says

CBC Kitchener-Waterloo | Sep 20, 2024
The first public consultation on the Waterloo Regional Police Service's (WRPS) 2025 budget lasted less than 15 minutes and just two people offered their thoughts to the police board. Regional Coun. Rob Deutschmann, who was speaking as a citizen and not a representative of council, and Mark Egers, president of the Waterloo Regional Police Association union which represents officers, each gave a presentation during the online meeting Friday morning. Deutschmann's presentation centered around transparency and how the police service reports human resources numbers.
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Intense discussion leads to regional council voting to save safe consumption sites

CityNews Kitchener | Sep 10 (updated Sep 11), 2024
Regional council is going to take-up the fight to save a safe consumption and treatment site (CTS) in Kitchener after the province announced plans to defund the program. Region of Waterloo Councillor Rob Deutschmann tabled a motion at the Community and Health Services committee meeting Tuesday morning. It calls on council to advocate to the province to reverse the decision.
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Regional councillor calls on province to reverse 'heartless' decision to close consumption and treatment sites

CBC Kitchener-Waterloo | Sep 10, 2024
A Region of Waterloo councillor is calling on the province to continue to fund consumption and treatment sites. Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones announced last month the province would close 10 sites that are considered to be too close to schools or day cares. That includes sites in Kitchener and Guelph. Regional Coun. Rob Deutschmann plans to bring forward a notice of motion to Tuesday's community and health services committee meeting to ask the province to continue to fund the sites.
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Bonnie Crombie Reveals Plan to Fix Education and Do More for You

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